RealClearBooks Week of December 2, 2024 Archives

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Monday, December 2
The Science of Scheduling a College-Football Season
Louisa Thomas New Yorker
The Rise of the Theater Kids
Evan Gardner The Free Press
The Penguin as Populist, Not Plutocrat
Michael M. Rosen Washington Free Beacon
Eve Babitz and Joan Didion
Barry Pierce Hero Magazine
When Suburbia Was Weird
Will Collins The American Conservative
The New Status Anxiety
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Decline and Fall of the Campus Novel
Lindsay Johns Air Mail
I Say Forbidden Things About Sports
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Duty Free
Vanessa Ogle The Nation
Alan Hollinghurst’s English Underground
Nicholas Harris The New Statesman
How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time
Rose Horowitch The Atlantic
When Stephen Sondheim Transformed Theater
Emma Brockes The New York Times
How I Won the ’89 State Championship
David Deavel AMAC
DEI Fellows and the Weird Wish Lists of Literary Agents
Pedro L. Gonzalez Contra
The Joker Redemption: A Critical Reappraisal
Jonathan English Providence


Tuesday, December 3
Who Is Steve McQueen Trying to Be?
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Best Albums of 2024
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
Under a Spell Everlasting
Samantha Rose Hill The American Scholar
How Josh Brolin Wrote A Memoir As Wild As His Life
Alex Pappademas GQ
The Biggest Opportunity of My Life
August Lamm Cluny Journal
How Boomers Blocked the Open Road
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
A Conversation with Emmalea Russo
Valerie Stivers The Rumpus
'Moana 2' Is a Watered-Down Rehash of the Original
Dana Stevens Slate
Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year
David Woo LitHub
Two Cheers for Viewpoint Diversity
R.J. Snell Law & Liberty
Break the Sex Strike
Ashley Frawley Compact
The Last Great Stoic
Spencer Klavan Claremont Review of Books
The 2024 Sweat Science Holiday Book List
Alex Hutchinson Outside
‘Nosferatu’ Review
Peter Debruge Variety
John Milton Foresaw Our Age of Chilling Censorship
Simon Heffer The Telegraph
How the Kringle Became a Wisconsin Christmas Classic
Trisha Gopal Eater
The Best TV Shows of 2024
Staff Vulture


Wednesday, December 4
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Doesn’t Pack the Franchise Spice
Miles Surrey The Ringer
She Met Hunter Biden One Night at a Club
Joseph Bernstein The New York Times
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
Phil Christman Plough
On Hannah Regel’s “The Last Sane Woman”
Sophie Poole Cleveland Review of Books
Riches & Honor
Alexander Stern Commonweal
My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit.
August Lamm The Free Press
Year in Reading
Becca Rothfeld The Millions
Moon Should Be a State
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Whose Weil?
Jack Hanson The Drift
My Friendship with James Salter
William Benton The Paris Review
We're Drowning in Gift Guides
Greta Rainbow Bustle
On Tony Tulathimutte’s 'Rejection'
Jess Bergman The New Republic
‘Crunchy Moms’ Found a Hero in RFK Jr.
Sara Ashley O'Brien Wall Street Journal
Conservatives Can Curate Art for Themselves
Mark Judge Chronicles
Trump Should Restart His Bid to Defend America’s Heritage
Jack Fowler NYPost
Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024
Emily Temple LitHub
Shoppers Find a New Outlet (Center)
Addison Del Mastro Discourse
Education Upstarts Hold Lack of Civics To Be Self-Evident
John Murawski RCI


Thursday, December 5
'Hardly Working' Brews Up Millennial Malaise
Jonathan Mittiga RealClearBooks
Nina Johnson’s Guide to Miami
Nina Johnson Air Mail
Trust the Critic?
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Return of the Gladiator
Jude Russo Modern Age
Gen Z Is Super Weird
Amber A'Lee Frost Jacobin
The 50 Best Airplane Movies, Ranked
Staff The Ringer
The Best Books of 2024
Staff The New Yorker
Why the Rainforest Cafe Refuses to Go Extinct
Jessica Gentile Slate
The Re-Skilling of America
Michael Lind Tablet
On Taking Things Slow
Brittany Menjivar Creative Independent
Jesse Eisenberg Is the Man for Our Anxious Moment
Olivia Ovenden GQ
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano
Laura van den Berg Fight Week
‘Mary’: A Beautiful, Realistic Film about the Blessed Mother
Mark Judge Chronicles
The Books That Made Us Think the Most This Year
Staff The Atlantic
The Conditions for Ultimate Greatness
David Deavel Imaginative Conservative


Friday, December 6
Ashton Jeanty’s Long Run to College Football Stardom
Mirin Fader The Ringer
America’s Sweethearts
Elena Clavarino Air Mail
The Novels That Made Us
Valerie Stivers Compact
Richard Weaver’s South
Allen Mendenhall Law & Liberty
Scruton and the Roots of Modern Conservatism
Dan Hitchens The Critic
There Is No Surplus Elite in America
Yascha Mounk Substack
Yes, the World Ended on November 5
Matthew Gasda Wisdom of Crowds
The Romanticized Squalor of 'Queer'
Andrew Marzoni The New Republic
Gen-Z’s Capitalist Whisperer
Shreeda Segan Arena Magazine
Interview with August Lamm
Samuel Forster Expat Press
Martha Stewart’s Hors d’Oeuvres Handbook
Aimee Levitt Eater
Trump Can Fight Wokeness in Sports
Jennifer S. Bryson TomKlingenstein.com
Dawn’s Early Light
Kevin D. Roberts Encounter Books
Brotherhood – Our Rugby Book of the Year
Joseph Hammond Sports Illustrated
Kid Dynamite’s Last Ride
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
Outrage and Our Fathers
Glenn A. Moots American Reformer
How RealClear Will Cover the New Administration
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Hits and Misses by Compact
Available this week: "Didion and Babitz" by Lili Anolik
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